Re: Fall Bulbs
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Fall Bulbs
- From: D* K*
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:53:20 -0400 (EDT)
Thank you, Sophie.
Doreen
At 07:08 PM 6/23/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doreen Knihnicky <knihnick@mail.med.upenn.edu>
>To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
>Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 4:19 PM
>Subject: Fall Bulbs
>
>
>>Does anyone know what kind of bulbs I can plant now for fall bloom (zone
>6).
>...
>I have in my zone 5/6 garden two kinds of hardy fall flowering bulbs: fall
>flowering crocus (Crocus speciosus) and colchicum ( called autumn crocus but
>it is not). I don't remember when I planted them but certainly not in June.
>I think that colchicum bulbs (expensive but worth it -flowers are
>beautiful ) will show up in the garden centers in August, crocus bulbs
>probably have to be ordered from the fancier mail order catalogues like
>McClure and Zimmerman. Both kinds should be planted as soon as you can get
>them in early fall. In the "The American Gardener' s World of Bulbs" Judy
>Glattstein who gardens in Connecticut (zone 6) devotes the whole chapter to
>these bulbs. If you can get this book from the library it would answer all
>your questions on the subject and then some more.
> -. >Also do I need to dig up my alliums before the winter for their return
>next
>>spring.
>No, alliums are hardy, most of them to zone 4.
>Sophie in Massachusetts
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